FIND OUT MORE READING HACKTHE NEW PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE READING AGENCYREAD MORE. BE MORE.

l Read more about Reading Hack on The Reading Agency’s website.

l Contact your local coordinator to get access to exclusive resources in the Reading Hack practitioner area.

l Get the Reading Hack newsletter for ideas and best practice, along with exciting offers and competitions to motivate Reading Hackers in your library. You can sign up online via the practitioner area.

IT’S A HACK! TURN A BOOK INTO A SONG

www.readingagency.org.uk/readinghack

Sue Ball, Libraries Service Development Manager, Staffordshire County Council

“We are looking forward to developing Reading Hack in our libraries across Staffordshire. Reading Hack will provide an opportunity for young people to participate in year round volunteering, supporting them in their college, university and job applications.”

“It’s an amazing idea in that it tries to actively engage teenagers to read and also get involved with changing their community for the better.” Seventeen-year-old Reading Hacker

Reading Hack has been developed by The Reading Agency, young people and practitioners and is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

About READING HACK

Reading Hack is reading subverted,flipped on its head, re-read, converted.

Reading Hack is a programme led by young people aged 13 to 24, who do reading activities and volunteering, called hacks, to gain skills and experience.

What is a hack? A hack is “a clever solution to a tricky problem. To hack is to modify or change something in an extraordinary way” (Urban Dictionary definition, 2009). Examples include Lifehack, Museum Hack and IKEA Hackers which all take something established and remake or redefine it.

Young people redefine reading through their involvement with Reading Hack.

How it worksYoung people hack reading by doing an activity with reading at its heart. This could be anything from a poetry-themed DJ set or novel-inspired Minecraft, to book-related filmmaking or helping younger children read.

Get skills, badges, prizes and compete with others in the Reading Hack League

Share their hacks online and get ideas for new hacks

Young people do hacks in their library, school or community

IT’S A HACK! PLAY NOVEL-INSPIRED MINECRAFT

IT’S A HACK! INSPIRE A CHILD TO LOVE READING

IT’S A HACK! REMIX THE INTERNET INTO POETRY

Five things READING HACK gives your library

Reading Hack gives you tools and resources to run hacks with young people, including:

A framework for running existing and new year round activities and volunteering.

An exciting brand and online platform to inspire young people to get involved locally.

A scheme for incentivising young people to engage with your offers and reward their achievement.

A menu of activities, ideas and campaign hooks that makes reading fun and relevant.

A bank of toolkits, resources and training to support your work with young people.

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5Reading Hack helps young people increase their confidence, employability, well-being and enjoyment of reading.